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June 14, 2011	Articles for deletion	Kept
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I've opened a discussion at BLPN on the removal of the subject's birth name. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 05:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vermin is very real: Video Evidence

hours of footage with the perennial candidate that legally goes by the name Vermin Supreme. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL517F17FD59B4951A

Satirical? In this video Vermin explains his campaign motives quite well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1xWBPHc3U

FluxRostrum (talk) 05:19, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Best Candidate

Someone should remove the line. "Vermin is the best candidate..." this is not appropriate for an encyclopedia entry.----

I've removed it. Thanks for pointing it out! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 19:16, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vermin Should not be viewed this way

The first line should include that he is an American Politician, and should not include anything mentioning that he is "satirical" Mr. Supreme is a registered Candidate and therefore is not "satirical"

He is described in reliable sources as a "satircal candidate", "satirist", and/or "perfomance artist", [1][2][3][4] and describes himself as a "fringe candidate"[5], so it appropriate to describe him as such in the article.--JayJasper (talk) 20:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Political Views

Added transcript from my blog entry...Vermin Supreme - A Pragmatic Anarchist for President. It's not a final solution...but it's better than not including a single reference to the very serious side of his political satire. In other words, he's not just making fun of the process...he has a very real, sincere, and genuine political message. The article up until now has only offered an extremely superficial portrayal of his political views and as such, has done a huge disservice to the readers of Wikipedia as well as to Vermin Supreme. My solution isn't perfect...but at least it helps readers form their own opinions based on his actual political views. --Xerographica (talk) 01:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

removal of extremely long quotation

As the the 400-word quotation transcribed from "Anarchist Runs for President ... since 1988" is a copyright violation *and* can easily be paraphrased, I have removed it and replaced it with a paraphrase. I have also properly cited the video from where it came.

See the following policies:

WP:LONGQUOTE: "Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited" and "a longer quotation should not be used where a shorter quotation would express the same information"
QUOTEFARM:"Long quotations crowd the actual article and remove attention from other information."

Each of these policies recommend paraphrasing the lengthy texts.

Kingturtle = (talk) 23:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I much prefer hearing it directly from the horse's mouth. But your paraphrase is certainly a whole heck of a lot better than not including any mention of his actual political views. So thanks for making the effort to paraphrase...rather than just remove...the lengthy quotation. --Xerographica (talk) 00:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. When I removed it originally, I meant no harm. It's just that lengthy quotes are problematic on Wikipedia for a number of reasons. It is always best to summarize. Most sincerely, Kingturtle = (talk) 01:31, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Political Positions

This article needs to include a sourced list of his official political positions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dyerx (talk • contribs) 03:07, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Section

The "Political Views" section contains syntax errors and needs to be fixed. Not sure how to do this myself — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.115.220.125 (talk) 14:20, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012

The 2012 section has waaaay more detail than it needs. Wikipedia doesn't need to record his every appearance, only what's actually notable. -65.26.194.87 (talk) 03:20, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]